Ed Sheeran Explains How Taylor Swift Keeps Her Music From Leaking

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 01: Ed Sheeran poses with Taylor Swift backstage before his sold-out show at Madison Square Garden Arena on November 1, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Anna Webber/Getty Images for Atlantic Records)Anna Webber

Where were you when Taylor Swift and Zayn Malik surprised the world with their secret collaboration for Fifty Shades Darker? Did you even know that they were teaming up? There’s a good reason as to why you didn’t, as it seems Taylor has found a seemingly airtight way of keeping her music on lockdown.

Squad member Ed Sheeran recently spoke with the Spanish site Capricho about the drastic measures Taylor takes to keep her songs secure. When asked if Taylor would digitally send Ed tracks for his input, he said, "She would never send new songs, no. I hear them but it has to be with her."

Take, for example, the elaborate lengths Ed and Taylor went to when they worked together on the song "Everything Has Changed" for her album Red.

"I was in San Francisco and they sent someone with a locked briefcase with an iPad and one song on it and they flew to San Francisco, and played the song I’ve done with her,” he said. “And they asked if I like it and I was like 'Yeah' and then they took it back, that’s how I heard it.”

Wow, that's commitment. But we don't blame her, considering Taylor’s one of the world’s biggest pop stars, and fans are always ravenous for absolutely any new material. Last September, the internet went into a tailspin when country singer Kelsea Ballerini allegedly Snapchatted a new song she was collaborating on with Taylor, who never commented on the rumor. If it was a leak, it would be a first for the singer — and we haven’t heard about the track since.

Ed's interview is not the first time Taylor's notorious efforts at privacy have been in the spotlight. In a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, the singer revealed her fears about wire taps and room bugs. (Apparently, her paranoia was not irrational, considering a later infamous situation when Kanye West allegedly recorded the phone call during which he played her the controversial first few lines of his song “Famous.”)

So if you've been scouring the internet for any new tidbits of Taylor music, you can just give up now.